Speaker

Prof. Ting Yang

School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, China

Research Experience:

Prof. Ting Yang, doctoral supervisor, is a discipline leader in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University. He is the deputy director of the national "distributed energy and micro grid" international science and technology cooperation base and the deputy director of Tianjin "Energy Internet” International Joint Research Center. As the largest contributor, he has won two provincial and departmental science and technology progress awards and some enterprise science and technology progress awards. He has published more than 100 SCI/EI papers, 4 monographs and 2 international invention patents in top academic journals in China and abroad. He has served as the session chair of several IEEE international conferences. He also served as the editor in chief or member of the Editorial Committee of several SCI journals. He is the special editor in chief of "Application of artificial intelligence in power system and energy Internet"(which won him the "Outstanding Special Editor Award" in 2018) of “Journal of Power System Automation”, and the special editor in chief of "Ubiquitous Power Internet of Things (UPIOT)" of “Journal of Power Construction”. He is now the deputy director of circuit and system branch of China Electronics Society, the national director of sensor sub committee of China Instrumentation Society and a member of the theoretical electrician special committee of China Electrical Engineering Society. His main research interests include energy & power, Internet of things, artificial intelligence and intelligent manufacturing.

Assoc. Prof. GHAMGEEN IZAT RASHED

School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Wuhan University, China

Research Experience:

Ghamgeen I. Rashed was born in Sulaimani-Iraq, on Sept. 16, 1974. He received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in Salahaadin University-Iraq at 1995, his M.Sc. in Sulaimani University-Iraq in 2003, and his Ph.D. degree in power system and its automation, from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), China in 2008. Now he is assistant professor at Wuhan university, school of electrical engineering, and Automation, Wuhan University, china. His special research of interest in AI and its application to the power system, FACTS devices specially TCSC and its control.

Rashed already published more than 40 SCI and EI papers, he already take part in more than 25 international conference and invited as keynote speakers and paper presenters.

Prof. Shiji Song

School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Wuhan University, China

Research Experience:

Prof. Shiji Song is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University. Since 2000, he has been engaged in teaching and scientific research in the Automation Department of Tsinghua University and the National CIMS Engineering Technology Research Center. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harbin Normal University in 1986, his master's degree in basic mathematics from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1989, and his doctor's degree in basic mathematics from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1996. From 1996 to 2000, he completed two postdoctoral studies at Ocean University of China, majoring in Physics and Oceanography, and Southeast University, majoring in Control Theory and Application. Since 2006, it has been awarded the first prize of natural science in Jiangsu Province, the second prize of natural science in colleges and universities of the Ministry of Education, and the second prize of natural science in Heilongjiang Province. In 2009, visited Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom, and was awarded "Distinguished by Royal Engineering.

Assoc. Prof. Chinthaka Premachandra

School of Engineering/Graduate School of Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology

Research Experience:

Assoc. Prof. Chinthaka Premachandra, from 2012 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan. From 2016 to 2017, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo. In 2018, he was promoted to an Associate Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering/Graduate School of Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology, where he is currently the Manager of the Image Processing and Robotic Laboratory. His laboratory conducts research in two main fields: image processing and robotics. The former field includes AI, computer vision, pattern recognition, image processing, and camera-based intelligent transportation systems, while the latter field includes mobile robotics, aerial robotics, and integration of terrestrial robot and aerial robot.